| Gabriel Carver, another one of my weaknesses. Gabe started as an idea of Jamie's through written creativity, unlike most of our characters. We tried having two different worlds going on at the same time: one we acted out over the telephone while the other we attempted to write about through character letters to one another. The goal of this was to have a written diary of sorts of the conversations for future references and book ideas. Well one of the teenagers Jamie had created was Gabriel. We discussed the lives of the letter characters so much that we were itching to bring them into the world we had on the phone, plus we couldn't keep up with all the letter writing. Thus, Gabe was introduced to the inhabitants of L.A as Lucas Xavier's son. Lucas already had Gabe as his little boy, but in the L.A fantasy he was a five year old toddler. The new Gabe was a sixteen year old hearthrob who my girls just ADORE. I think it's a combination of his looks and his personality: Gabriel doesn't consider himself God's gift to women and he has a very modest attitude about himself. There's nothing sexier to me than a man who's extremely attractive but doesn't act like it. After we got rid of some characters and changed families around, Gabriel went from being an Xavier to a Carver. No matter what his last name is, he'll always be my baby. |
